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- Permanent Link:
- http://digital.soas.ac.uk/LSMD000336/00001
Material Information
- Title:
- Utenzi wa Seyyidnaa Aly na Moh’dar (MS 380538b)
- Series Title:
- Knappert Collection :
- Creator:
- [s.n.]
- Publication Date:
- [n.d.]
- Language:
- Swahili
- Materials:
- Paper ( medium )
- Technique:
- Typescript manuscript : In black type on thin paper
Notes
- Abstract:
- The content of this typescript is essentially the same as that of 380538a, the outstanding difference being that (b) is incomplete. But the latter is not a carbon copy of the former, and some notable variations arise after verse 250. Because of erroneous stanza numbering in (b), the numbers mentioned below refer to 380538a. The verse numbered 284 in (a), for example, is in the present typescript followed by an additional verse introducing the quotation from the Qur’an that appears in both typescripts. The verses numbered 394 and 395 in (a) are inverted in (b). Also around verse 395, a section of about eight stanzas in (a) are transposed to another, later position in (b). And the verse numbered 477 in (a) is in (b) followed by two additional verses and a Qur’anic quotation. The incompleteness of (b) makes it difficult to evaluate the significance of these differences. ( en )
- General Note:
- Date of Composition is unknown
- General Note:
- Languages: Swahili (Roman script)
- General Note:
- Poetic Form: Utenzi
- General Note:
- Extent: 32 leaves
- General Note:
- Incipit: Karatasi kwa juhudi, Tashiya ya Bughdadi, Na wino wa aswadi, Utokao Misriyya
- General Note:
- This typescript is incomplete, and errors have been made in the numbering of its pages. Additionally, on page 13, the stanza numbers jump from 209 to 300 inexplicably
- General Note:
- Archival history: This manuscript was formerly part of MS 380526
- General Note:
- Africa -- Eastern Africa -- Swahili Coast
- General Note:
- Purchased from Dr. J. Knappert, March 1993
- General Note:
- Publication information: Knappert, Jan. 1964. Four Swahili Epics. Leiden, pp. 7-8 and 106-156.
- General Note:
- Publication information: Knappert, Jan. 1999. A Survey of Swahili Islamic Epic Sagas. Lewiston, New York; Queenston, Ontario; Lampeter, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press; pp. 123-126
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- SOAS University of London
- Holding Location:
- Archives and Special Collections
- Rights Management:
- This item may be in the public domain. Its status has yet to be assessed.
- Resource Identifier:
- MS 380538 ( SOAS manuscript number )
MS 380538b ( SOAS manuscript number )
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